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So why waste your time commenting?

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Re^3: Completely New To Perl - Need Help Commenting Script
by Laurent_R (Canon) on Jul 25, 2013 at 21:32 UTC

    Well, I am coming here and on other Perl forums mainly to try to help others and that does take quite some of my time (but I also learn a lot from reading other people responses, so that the time spent is not wasted in my view), but here, I had the feeling the OP (you) said: "I have no time for that, can you guys do it for me." OK, maybe I overreacted and misinterpreted your comment, but I was probably only trying to say that there are more efficient ways to ask politely and efficiently for help. You don't like it and are probably the one who gave me a down vote for it, fine, do as you like, I don't really care. I neither upvoted nor downvoted your posts (I actually almost never downvote any post, I think I must have done 2 or 3 times maximum ever since I have been coming on this site, and the first time actually by error), and, if you ask another question tomorrow, I will just try to answer it if I can, just as if nothing had happened.

Re^3: Completely New To Perl - Need Help Commenting Script
by ww (Archbishop) on Jul 26, 2013 at 00:46 UTC

    Though I concede Laurent_R's remark could be read as mere sniping (for lack of an explanation that the Monastery is not code-a-matic), my immediate reaction was that it was actually constructive because it might encourage the OP -- yeah, you, tevoit -- to consider what the node asked for: namely, free consultation by the Monks for the OP's $work. If the idea that that's not welcome here sinks in, you might undertake to learn rather than merely say 'gimme!'

    (I should not be surprised to learn you, tevoit, applied much the same logic to your arguably 'snippy' reply.)

    If I've misconstrued your question or the logic needed to answer it, I offer my apologies to all those electrons which were inconvenienced by the creation of this post.